Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-13
TEXAS.
Judge Husbands Historical Sketch Cor
rected in Some Respects.

rected in Some Respects.
KANSAS CITY, Mo, June 8, 1851.
To the Editor of the Gazette
AS l am operating largely in Texas
lands, everything concerning the state i:
of interest TO me, and beg to both add tc
and subtract from the article in yours o.
the 25th ult., prepared by Judge w. L
Husband for the Texas Advertiser.
The name Louisiana embraced land in
Alabama, west of the Preside, and on the
Gulf of Mexico, below latitude 81
north; also the states of Mississippi
Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Texas
Indian Territory, part OF New Mexico
part of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska
Iowa, part OF Minnesots, Oregon, Dakota,
Montana, Idaho, Washington, and 8
portion of Wyoming, and cost the United
States 81, 1861, G2lg8, paid to France
International law had conceded this vast
territory to France on the following
grounds, viz:
In 1541 DeSoto reached the Mississippi
river.
In 1878 Father Marquette descended
the Mississippi TO its mouth.
In 1850 LaSalle descended the Missis-
sippi and took possession Of the country
adjacent to it in the name of Louis NV
of France, and named it Louisiana.
proceed now to show that several
exchanges OF land were made by royal
claimants, and how Texas became q part
of Mexico.
l. Spain held Florida by discovery on
Palm Sunday, March %, 1912.
In 1876 Spain coded Florida to Great
Britain in exchange for the island Of
Cuba.
On November 3, 1862, France coded to
SPAN in "fulI property, purely and SIM
ply, and without any exceptions, the
whole country known by the name Of
Louisiana" which of course included
Texas, and thus she for the first time had
possession of Texas.
On February 1v, 1868, Spain coded to
Great Britain ali of her possessions east
of the Mississippi river.
In 1888 Great Britain ceded to Spain
the provinces of East Florida, for which
she had exchanged Cuba in 1886, and
also ceded West Florida, which she had
acquired from Spain in 1903.
On October l, 1900, Spain transferred
the province of Louisiana back to France
this transfer included Texas.
On April so, 1903, France sold the col
ony or province of Louisiana to the
United States; which sale included
Texas.
On February %, 1919, Spain ceded to
the United States East Florida and West
Florida, and by the same treaty the
United States relirq pushed to Spain the
country afterwards known as Texas, and
thus for the second time Texas became al
Spanish possession, and was then an
neXed to and became part of New Spain
(MeXiCo).
France never ceded,her claim to Texas
due to the discovery of DeSoto, Mar
quette and by LIZ SallS in 1902, and col
onization, February IS, 1865. at Mata-
gOrda bay. In 1876, Marquis Laguns,
Yiceroy OF Mexico, sent an expedition to
capture the country, but this was three
years after Marquette had descended the
Mississippi 10 its mouth. In 1891, Don
Domingo Texan was appointed governor
of Coahuila and Texas under Spain, but
this was subsequent to the Matsgords
bay settlement.
The United States cid not remain quies-
cent as to the government of Texas by
Spain and subsequently by Mexico from
1903 until 1882, for:
l. October %, 1908, the United States
in Congress assembled passed an sact to
enable the President to take po&ession
of the whole province of Louisisps, which
included Texas. -
2. The commissioners William q. &C.
Claiborne and James WILKINSON 9ook
possession of the said whole proEzce on